Brittany Loring, of Cambridge, was critically injured at the Boston Marathon bombing.

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"I was bleeding from my head and I saw my reflection in a storefront window. That's when I started freaking out," said Loring, a Boston College graduate student about to get a combined MBA and law degrees.

Boston Medical Center doctors told Loring she had a skull fracture from BB's and shrapnel in her head.

She also had BB's in her neck and the worst wound was in her thigh.

Loring was at the marathon with fellow grad student Liza Cherney, who has similar wounds but is also recovering. They were walking toward the finish line to cheer on another friend who was running.

After three surgeries and a week and a half in the hospital, Loring on Saturday night welcomed three guests into her Cambridge home she couldn't refuse, no matter what her condition.

Loring was later reunited with a Boston Athletic Association Marathon worker who helped her into a wheelchair and ambulance. She only remembered the man as Alex.

Alex Fusco, a 21-year-old athletic training major at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., has family in North Reading who saw the news story, and contacted Alex. The next day he added Loring as a friend on Facebook.

Fusco posted, “I heard you’re looking for me.”

The pair was reunited on Skype.

“Now I remember your face,” said Loring.

“So how are you?” Fusco asked.

Fusco was glad to hear from Loring because without information he was having some trouble coping.

“Trouble sleeping,” he said.

Fusco said one of the Boston men flagged him down as he pushed a wheelchair to try and help people.

“Glad I could help someone,” said Fusco as Loring thanked him.

Michael Sokolowski, Jason Desena and Charlie Gimber also came to her aid when she was bloody and running down Bolyston and Exeter Streets.

Sokolowski, a BC alum took off his windbreaker and made a tourniquet for Loring's leg.

Jokingly Sokolowski said his keys were in the jacket pocket and, "I need my jacket back and replacement keys."

It was a light-hearted reunion between the recovering Loring and the three Boston men.

"We put napkins on her head and tried to calm her down," said Desena.

"We needed to see her smiling and happy because that was the only time we met her and we needed a better impression," said the other two men who brought flowers for Loring.

Loring pointed to her neck wound and said, "The nurses were amazed this didn't puncture anything. The BB's in the head were all surface wounds and I didn't lose any hearing at all."

After Loring was rushed to the hospital, the men only knew they'd helped a young lady named Brittany on her birthday. Then flipping through the Facebook, they saw that one of Sokolowski's friends had posted a Facebook link to a fundraising page for Brittany.

"It was mind blowing all we knew was her name and we found her," said Gimber.

That Facebook page raised nearly $80,000 in one week. Money that Loring doesn't use will be passed on to other blast survivors.